A healthy 'full English'...

Out,_Vile_Jelly

I've been served grilled halloumi instead of sausage in a veggie fry-up; this went surprisingly well with eggs and beans.

Just reducing the portion size of everything would help; I was genuinely shocked by the size of the "large" breakfast in Weatherspoons (3 sausages, 3 rashers, 3 eggs etc).

peachyprice

Are the processed foods like LMcC 'sausages' and 'bacon-style turkey rashers' really better for us than the natural product in moderation? I doubt it.

Which sausages would you prefer:
Rehydrated Textured Soya Protein (64%), Water, Soya Protein Concentrate, Palm Oil, Seasoning (Sulphites) (Dextrose, Salt, Flavourings, Onion Powder, Yeast Extract, Colour: Red Iron Oxide), Rapeseed Oil, Rusk (Fortified Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Calcium Carbonate, Iron, Niacin, Thiamin), Salt, Raising Agent: Ammonium Bicarbonate), Stabiliser: Methyl Cellulose, Tomato Pur!e, Salt

or

Pork shoulder (86%), water, FORTIFIED WHEAT FLOUR (wheat flour, calcium carbonate, iron, niacin, thiamin), hog casing, sea salt, ground spices nutmeg, ginger, black pepper, mace, mustard powder and chilli powder, salt, herbs thyme and sage, antioxidant ascorbic acid, yeast


And which bacon would you prefer:
Turkey Breast (84%), Water, Salt, Lactose (Milk), Flavouring, Sugar, Stabilisers (Sodium Triphosphate, Disodium Diphosphate, Sodium Polyphosphate), Dextrose, Onion Powder, Preservative (Sodium Nitrite)

or

Free range British pork (97%), sea salt, light brown sugar, preservative sodium nitrite

buildersdaughter

ITA peachy, but to each their own.

I was amused by a friend who has for years tried to reduce sugar and fat in her diet, and would buy processed foods that advertised as such. I buy very few processed foods. She would say 'do you know how much sugar is in a loaf of bread?' Me 'yes'. She 'It's x spoonsful'. Me 'No, it's 2.50ml'. She always fell for it, even though she knew I made my own.
The most recent was 'you must stop eating yoghourt, it's full of sugar'. Me 'no it isn't'. She 'have you read the information on the carton?' etcetc. She has eaten my home cooking so many times, but doesn't quite believe it's done from scratch!

purpleivy

My yogurt contains no sugar whatsoever, nor preservatives,
stabilisers, thickeners or anything else. I make it myself by the litre or two in my Instant Pot and sometimes strain to make a thick yogurt. Anything I put on it is home prepared...stewed fruit, hm lemon curd, home made jam. Sometimes a bit of sugar, but never artificial sweeteners. Exception is that honey isn't home prepared.

buildersdaughter wrote: »

ITA peachy, but to each their own.

I was amused by a friend who has for years tried to reduce sugar and fat in her diet, and would buy processed foods that advertised as such. I buy very few processed foods. She would say 'do you know how much sugar is in a loaf of bread?' Me 'yes'. She 'It's x spoonsful'. Me 'No, it's 2.50ml'. She always fell for it, even though she knew I made my own.
The most recent was 'you must stop eating yoghourt, it's full of sugar'. Me 'no it isn't'. She 'have you read the information on the carton?' etcetc. She has eaten my home cooking so many times, but doesn't quite believe it's done from scratch!

suki1964

No harm to the op, but I'd rather go without then eat that

The once in a blue moon I have a fry up ( about once in 6 weeks ) it's a proper one, grilled real high meat content sausages and proper dry cure bacon. I grant that I do prefer poached eggs, beans, potato-bread,mushrooms nuked with a nob of butter and if I can find it, real proper black pudding with big lumps of fat in it, not that stuff made with pearl barley


A fry is a treat and it should be big enough to keep you going until tea time at least, which mine does

I always thought that LMs 'sausages' were very high fat

Izadora

suki1964 wrote: »

I always thought that LMs 'sausages' were very high fat

They're only 5.4g fat per 100g. They are utterly disgusting though.

I agree with Lolly, Cauldron are the best veggie sausages. They are pretty high in fat though, 9.8g per 100g. Strangely, they're lower in saturated fat than the LM ones though.

Chickabiddybex

I just wanted to echo the Tesco reduced salt and sugar beans recommendation. I tried the Heinz one but it's awful - then I saw why. They add sweetener! It's not good.

Former_MSE_Nick_T

Has anyone noticed if it's been cheaper to switch out meat in their fry ups?

Pollycat

MSE_Nick_T wrote: »

Has anyone noticed if it's been cheaper to switch out meat in their fry ups?

Why would anyone - meat eaters anyway - want to 'switch out meat' to save money if

buildersdaughter wrote: »

A full English IMHO should be an occasional and proper treat. When we have it, it is the main meal of the day.

If I couldn't afford decent meat (sausage & bacon) in the rare fry-up I have, I'd cook something else.

TensandUnits

Alan_Cross wrote: »

Full English breakfast - images of greasy spoon cafes and the idea of a heart-attack-on-a-plate, right? Not necessarily. Here's what I've come up with:

Egg.......... poached
Sausage........ Linda Macartney veggie version (don't bother with any other type - they're all awful sawdust jobs)
Bacon........ no, Tesco bacon-style turkey rashers
1 medium Tomato...... halved or quartered
Baked beans.......Tesco low salt/sugar variety - actually still very tasty
Mushrooms........ full, halved, quartered, sliced according to taste
Bread......... toast, rather than fried bread
OJ 150ml......or other breakfast juice but not 'juice drink', to accompany

We make our own 'pretend' baked beans, using tinned beans (can be haricot, cannellini or any other smallish bean), chopped tomatoes, onions, carrot, tomato puree and a little bit of sugar.

For vegetarian sausages I would recommend Cauldron. If you have a health shop near you you may find there are some better quality sausages in there which you can't get in the supermarkets.